I thought that was Volvo?
On Feb 27, 2009, at 11:53 AM, Barney Gaylord wrote:
> At 10:45 AM 2/27/2009 -0600, Paul Root wrote:
>> .... there's a lot of sticking ones head in the sand of
>> environmentalists that think a Zero emission car has no
>> environmental effect from it's use.
>> ....
>
> We all know that electric cars pollute by way of what comes out of
> the electrical power generating plant. So how about a REAL
> practical negative pollution vehicle? Some years ago when the
> government was mandating production of "zero pollution" vehicles,
> Honda built a negative pollution vehicle that runs on common
> gasoline, and you wouldn't know it from any other gasoline powered
> car. They put catalyst plating on the outside of the cooling
> radiator. The radiator then removed more pollutants from the
> ambient air than the car was emitting from the tail pipe, thus
> making it a negative pollution vehicle, actually cleaning the air as
> you drove.
>
> You can guess where that went. Bureaucrats with a vested interest
> in electric cars shot it down because the emissions standards only
> consider tail pipe emissions. Ignoring negative emissions of the
> catalytic radiator, is just as stupid as ignoring positive emissions
> of coal fired electric power plants.
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